I'm growing off old bleach on the bottom part of my hair and it's driving me nuts.

I was in the bathroom with the scissors but ended up only snipping the ends of a half dozen hairs.  But I get the urge sometimes to just lop off all the part that has the old color on it, but I would lose some serious length and it might even require some layering to get it off all the tips.

I don't really think the whole problem is hair related though.  I've been having a lot of family stress for a while now and I guess hair is just something I feel like I can control when I can't control anything else.

I'm sorry, I'm getting off-topic here.

Anyway, are there ways to deal with the different textures of two-tone hair?  I don't want to cut it really, because it is just now getting to a point where I can put it up well with only a few used-to-be-bangs sliding out.

Sorry for whining so much.

strawberryfine

Strawberryfine,  I SOOO know where your're coming from.  I had a chin length bob with heavy blonde highlights in the summer of '03.. I kept it that way for a few months and then got serious about growing it out
about a year ago Dec'03.  I kept highlighting it for a couple more months, though, although I switched stylists and the new stylist did not use bleach(the old
stylist did) and used a high volume developer golden
blonde ( I think she told me) My hair was fairly damaged
when I found this board, mainly due to using the curling
iron and blow dryer with a round brush to make my ends
curl under.  Not on a daily basis, but about 2-3 times
a week.   After trying the tips I saw on the ultimateguide to growing long hair,no heat styling and
changing to SLES or non sulfate shampoos and washing
twice a week,instead of every other day, oiling,ect.
My hair greatly improved, and now I'm below shoulder
length about 1-2 inches( I've been trimming a lot to get
rid of the damaged bleach.  My bleached part is still
damaged, and always will be.  I know eventually I will
have to get it all trimmed off.  But I can't bear to cut it
now because by this summer I could be BSL if I let it
grow.  I saw a movie the other day, and a woman had a chin lenght bob (the cleopatra look_ and I thought, I
should cut it like that, just get rid of all these damaged
ends and start ofver, then I could do henna or put a red
colour on it.  I don't dare to do those things now.  But
that would be losing a whole years growth and I know I
would be really upset with myself if I did that.  SO I'm just
trimming a little at a time, and letting healthy new
hair come in(except that I went and got brown lowlights
on Nov 1st )  that was how I dealt with the two- tone look.  But I don't know if that was the right thing to do.
Sure, It helped with the two tone look, but now I have more chemicals on my hair to grow out.  Oh, well.  I know
where you are about it, I won't cut if you won't.

No suggestions, but I wanted to offer my support.  Mine are driving me nuts too, but I have a TON to grow out.  I really think I'm going to get my ends dyed to match my roots.  I hate to damage them more, but at the same time, I don't feel like I can do much worse to them than I have.  And then the next 5 years might be a bit easier.

I can't believe all this incredible support!
All of you, my friends on this board, are so special to me!

sf